Speaker

Zhilei Ge

Time

2024.12.04 16:00-17:30

Abstract

The diversity of proteins proves their importance in life activities. However, the evolutionary process only explored a very small fraction of the possibilities of proteins. The ability to artificially design proteins with specific functions or shapes has become a long-standing challenge for scientists. AI assisted protein design can not only mimic the structure of nature, but also create new types of proteins. This innovative thinking has opened up infinite possibilities for scientists, heralding broad prospects in fields such as drug development, disease treatment, and materials science.

Bio

Zhilei Ge, Associate Professor of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Vice Dean of the Institute of Translational Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Peking University, and from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with a doctor's degree. Later, he engaged in postdoctoral research at the Biodesign Research Institute of Arizona State University in the United States. He joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2018. His research areas include DNA molecular machines and nucleic acid information materials. So far, he has published over 60 papers and was cited more than 3300 times. He has received multiple awards, including the first prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award (R3) and the first prize of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Teaching Achievement Award.